Thank you, Milkmuffin317, I will write more! Ugh... I know what I want to happen in one of the next few scenes, but I don't know how to get there... Time to just write!

Just got some inspiration from listening to the Soul Eater soundtrack (Soul Eater end 3 full for running from class scene).

When Karietta is in her "cursed" form, although she is nude, her body is like Mystique's from the X-Men movies, but her skin is entirely smooth. The rest of the form's description is down below.


Karietta stood there, arms at her sides, hands balled into tight fists, head bowed, and hot tears of anger and lament streaming down her flushed cheeks.

"You're not a monster, Karietta." Stein began. Karietta grit her teeth, the muscles in her body undulating with the adrenaline of anger. She could feel the cells in her hands contracting, expanding, and flexing. She slammed her hands on the table, palms down and fingers spread.

"You wouldn't know a monster if it was staring you in the eyes..." Karietta then jumped on her desk, placing the toe of her left foot off the edge of the desk. She then pushed off and front flipped twice before landing like the female protagonist of an action film before dashing for the door. She grabbed the handle with her right hand before Stein clasped her left arm with a firm hand.

"Where are you going?" Stein asked, an indescribable expression on his face.

"L-let me go!" Karietta stammered.

"Answer me." came Stein's stern, gruff reply.

The other students watched with great awe, no other student having had stood up to Stein as Karietta was doing right then.

"Let. Me. GO!" Karietta demanded, losing all fear and uncertainty. Fresh tears welled up in her eyes. "Let me go! I don't want to hurt you."

Stein was adamant in discovering where she was going. "Tell me where you're going and I'll let go."

Karietta let go off the handle, the metal now having a perfect mold of her hand. "Let go!" she screamed, throwing a punch at her sutured and silver-haired teacher.

Stein dodged the right hook, only realizing his mistake when Karietta's knee was already in his back. He hit the floor, a snapping sound coming from his back, the force and pain causing him to release Karietta's arm.

Karietta dashed out of the classroom and down the hall. A few minutes later, she was out of the academy and running down the front steps. She kept running until she was in the center of the city and turned down an alley


Stein took off his jacket as he reached the back of house. In the classroom, after the pain had receded, he had removed the possibility of any of his bones, specifically his ribs, being broken. That left only one other possibility for the snapping sound his back had made earlier. He removed his sweater and felt around the material on the back. He discovered a portion that was slightly damp.

Stein entered his bathroom, turned on the faucet, and ran cold water over his sweater. After he was sure he had rinsed out all of the blood, he hung it up to dry, then turned around to check his back. His suspicion was correct; some of the stitches that sprawled across his back had snapped.


Karietta looked out her bedroom window and saw that the sun was beginning to set. She set her book down, stripped herself of all clothing, and climbed under the sheets. She stared at the ceiling, waiting for that inevitable moment. She didn't have to wait long. She soon blacked out, her body shifting into the form it was cursed to transform into every night.

Her skin became a dark, near-black, gray that made her features nearly indistinguishable. Her eyes also changed color, the whites of her eyes became a charcoal gray, her irises became a bright red, and pupils began to glow a lantern yellow. Her body was soon bereft of any hair.

She sat up straight, staring blankly at the sheets that covered her lap before pressing her hands down on either side of her legs. She then snapped the lower half of her body up so she was on all fours. She looked out at the twilit skyline of Death City, a snarl coming to her lips, revealing longer and sharper canines and premolars. She inched towards the open window. She placed a hand, followed by the other, on the exterior wall of the apartment, then crawled along it to the edge. She looked around, hissed, then leaped to the next building.

Karietta did this for five more minutes before she paused, pushed her torso away from the exterior of the building she was currently on and sniffed at the air. Her eyes narrowed, and she hissed, a feral sound that wasn't human, but not any known animal either. She dashed down the side of the building and galloped northwards down the sidewalk.


"Thanks for stopping by, Nygus." Stein said as Nygus redid the sutures on his back.

"No problem." Nygus answered as she tied the last knot and snipped off the extra thread. She stood and headed towards the door. She stopped and looked back at Stein, who was still sitting with his back to her. "How did they break, anyways?" she pried.

"Karietta." came his response. Nygus raised an eyebrow. "She ran to the door in the middle of class, so I grabbed her arm and asked her where she was going." Stein expounded without mentioning the girl's outburst. "She threw a punch at me. I made the mistake of dodging it and wound up with a knee in my back."

"Heh heh, should've seen that coming." Nygus remarked with a chuckle. "I knew that girl had potential. She's an underdog with super strength!" She turned and waved goodbye over her shoulder. "You take it easy, Professor."


A/N: I apologize if anyone is OOC (especially Nygus, I've only watched the anime and she doesn't appear often, so I wrote actions and dialogue that I thought suited her). Also, the suspense is building(at least, for me it is; I know what's happening next)!